Exactly. And the politicians always choose butter. Europe had the luxury of the US security umbrella. We won’t have that luxury.
Politicians don’t always choose “butter.” They generally do not treat it as an either or choice. Bush and Obama have always deferred to the military-industrial complex. Pentagon spending has INCREASED under Obama. From FDR to Truman, to JFK, to LBJ, the welfare and warfare states in the U.S. have historically gone hand together like hand and glove. The true choice is between cutting the budget and cutting taxes on one side and increasing the welfare AND warfare states on the other.